Deadlights

Word DEADLIGHTS
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Definitions and meanings of "Deadlights"

What do we mean by deadlights?

A strong (often wooden) shutter fitted over a porthole, that can be closed in bad weather to keep water out and discourage the glass windows from breaking.

A deck prism, a device to allow light into the cabin of boat through the deck.

An eyelid.

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The word "deadlights" in example sentences

If ye're a gentleman or lady o' fortune yerself — or just want t' talk like one — ye c'n set Pirate as yer preferred lingo usin' th' Likes an' Dislikes page, or cast yer deadlights on an example. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A brilliant eccentric with a morbid turn of mind, Kuroshima was known for shutting himself in his cabin, closing the deadlights on his porthole, stripping naked, and smoking continuously while burning incense as he worked around the clock. ❋ Evan Thomas (2006)

It was pitch black, for no lights were allowed after nine o-clock except in the roundhouse day cabins where deadlights could be fixed across the small portholes. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- (2000)

Someone had slammed the deadlights against the deckhouse windows and clamped them home — Knyvett must be expecting to ship some heavy seas. ❋ Forester, C. S. (1958)

He made himself lie still; it was pitch dark in the deckhouse with the deadlights in, and, perhaps because of the cessation of ventilation, it was now overpoweringly hot despite the gale. ❋ Forester, C. S. (1958)

The time was 7: 15 A.M. All the watertight doors, deadlights and scuttles had been securely closed before the torpedo struck the ship. ❋ Various (N/A)

I was pretty sure that they had fixed me in the cabin, not only for the night, but until somebody passing in a boat would see me signalling from the tiny deadlights. ❋ W. Bertram Foster (N/A)

They fell on the rough features of the old merchant mariner who owned the ship and who so largely controlled our fortunes, making him seem more irascible than ever, and faded out in the early morning light that came in through the deadlights. ❋ Charles Boardman Hawes (N/A)

If it is after sunset and the ship is "darkened" the scuttles will all have their deadlights down, and the place will be very, what we may call "frowsty." ❋ Unknown (1925)

It was impossible to close the gun-deck ports so as to make them watertight, for the water would find cracks to come in at, even though the edges of the lids were caulked with oakum, and the orifices further barred by deadlights or wooden shutters. ❋ John Masefield (1922)

The sea in mountains breaking over our bows, and a single wave dispersing in mist through the violence of the storm; ship rolling to such a degree that we are compelled to keep our berths; cabin dark with the deadlights in. ❋ Morse, Samuel F B (1914)

It is true that they now had the masonry of the lighthouse to resort to, which, no doubt, lessened the actual danger of their situation; but the building was still without a roof, and the deadlights, or storm-shutters, not being yet fitted, the windows of the lower story were stove in and broken, and at high-water the sea ran in considerable quantities out at the entrance door. ❋ Unknown (1912)

We of Number Eight gun, when the "Yankee" was steaming with the starboard broadside bearing, managed to slip across the deck and watch the firing from the ports and deadlights. ❋ Russell Doubleday (1910)

The boat was built for under-water going, so little daylight penetrated the interior through the few small deadlights, or round, heavy glass windows, but electric incandescent bulbs fed by current from the storage batteries lit the interior brilliantly. ❋ Russell Doubleday (1910)

On deck a fine rain was blowing through a gap in our burlap shroud, a phosphorescent fringe of foam hissed along the sides of the ship, giving the illusory appearance of our deadlights open and ablaze, exaggerating the sinister blackness of the night. ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)

Thinks I, 'There's fog in my deadlights and I can't see through 'em right.' ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)

Elviry she was snifflin 'around and swabbin' her deadlights with her handkercher and heavin 'overboard lamentations about her poor dear Aunt ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)

The town folks tiptoed away, the men looking solemn but glad, and the women swabbing their deadlights and saying how affecting 'twas, and so on. ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)

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